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Tata Steel Chess: Out of the blue!

Two fantastic games played in the 8th round of the super chess tournament on the Wijk aan Zee. The World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen avoids the moves repetition and performs a brilliant attack against…

… GM Richard Rapport with the rating of 2731! You can try to find the winning continuation in the following position. The picture is from the official website.

Carlen – Raport

White’s turn

He sacrificed temporarily his Rook in order to win more material, thanks to the Knight fork. This was a brilliant chess game; a game which every amateur chess player would like to see.

The second most rated player in the tournament Shakhriyar Mamedyarov “meets his master” with Viswanathan Anand. The Indian super Grandmaster performs a powerful central break destroying Black’s positions. Probably it was a home preparation because all these extremely complicated tactics happen after the 20th move. Yes, today’s top players make very deeply analysis in the opening and this helps them to demolish the opponent’s positions…

Anand – Mamedyarov

White’s turn

The results after the 8th round - Tata Steel Masters 2019

Score

Rating

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

1

Carlsen

5.5 / 8

2835

½

½

½

½

1

1

1

½

2

Anand

5.5 / 8

2773

½

½

½

½

½

1

1

1

3

Nepomniachtchi

5.0 / 8

2763

½

½

½

1

½

½

½

1

4

Ding, Liren

5.0 / 8

2813

½

½

½

½

½

½

1

1

5

Giri

5.0 / 8

2783

½

0

½

½

1

½

1

1

6

Radjabov

4.5 / 8

2757

½

½

1

½

½

½

½

½

7

Vidit

4.0 / 8

2695

½

½

½

0

½

½

½

1

8

Duda

4.0 / 8

2738

½

0

½

½

1

½

0

1

9

Fedoseev

3.5 / 8

2724

½

½

½

½

0

1

½

0

10

Shankland

3.5 / 8

2725

½

0

½

½

0

½

½

1

11

Mamedyarov

3.0 / 8

2817

0

0

½

½

½

½

½

½

12

Rapport

3.0 / 8

2731

0

½

0

½

½

½

½

½

13

Van Foreest

2.5 / 8

2612

0

0

0

½

0

1

1

0

14

Kramnik

2.0 / 8

2777

½

0

0

0

½

0

½

½

You can see the memorable games below

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We have a lot of round ahead of us and everything can happen. The tournament will be fascinated!

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